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Congratulations brothers! Thank you for sharing this occasion with us!

Gassho
Yugen

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Please take all my comments with a grain of salt - I am a novice priest and anything I say is to be taken with a good dose of skepticism - Shodo Yugen

Shingen and Shugen, from the deepest, darkest and also brightest place in my heart, congratulations! Thank you for this lifelong journey you are taking for all of us. It will be a great honor to practice with you.

Congratulations Shingen and Shugen. I was not able to witness your ceremony for a number of reasons, but even as I'm so new here and I don't know most of t he people here I feel a deep respect for people that choose to honestly devote their life to any spiritual path.

Let me greet you both with a heartful gassho and wish you find blissful every step of your path.

Congratulations! I'd be curious to know, from all the unsui really, if you plan or see yourselves teaching far down the road? Or are some of you initially doing it more to just commit yourself more seriously to practice?

Congratulations! I'd be curious to know, from all the unsui really, if you plan or see yourselves teaching far down the road? Or are some of you initially doing it more to just commit yourself more seriously to practice?

Hi Kaishin,

I didn't want you to think you were being ignored. I've been thinking about your questions and I just can't come up with a "straight" answer. Like practice, it's not a static thing - sometimes it's one answer, sometimes it's something else. For me, it really is too early to tell for sure. I'm sorry my answer isn't more illuminating but it's the best I can come up with for now. I, of course, am only answering for my self.

Gassho,

As a priest in training, please take everything I say with a pinch of salt

Gassho, Shawn Jakudo Hinton
It all begins when we say, “I”. Everything that follows is illusion.
"Even to speak the word Buddha is dragging in the mud soaking wet; Even to say the word Zen is a total embarrassment."
寂道

Congratulations! I'd be curious to know, from all the unsui really, if you plan or see yourselves teaching far down the road? Or are some of you initially doing it more to just commit yourself more seriously to practice?

Hello Kaishin,

For me I am can be a student one moment and at another, be a teacher. Each moment, each experience has the opportunity for both or just one. For me ... I am just walking this path and helping where and when I can ... nothing to attain ... and yet to embrace each moment as it is. =)

Gassho
Shingen

倫道 真現

As a trainee priest, please take any commentary by me on matters of the Dharma with a pinch of salt.